It Was Alive Three Minutes Ago
Today I enjoyed my usual lunch this summer. I opened a bag of spinach and put a large amount on my plate. Then I walked outside to the garden and picked a few peppers and pulled up an onion or two. I looked over the herbs and chose chives for today’s salad. I noticed two little red tomatoes that I plucked as well. I walked back into the kitchen, rinsed everything off, sliced and diced, and spread it on the spinach. Then I topped it all with some raw cashews, some bean sprouts, and some Newman’s Own dressing, and YUM!!!! A delicious lunch! And those garden veggies HAVE to be healthy–they were alive and growing only three minutes before I popped them into my mouth. Sure beats stuff picked by a machine a few weeks ago, on some farm thousands of miles away and ripened on a truck, and then sitting on the grocery store shelf for several days!
July 25th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
YUM! I stopped at my local farm stand today, and they were emptying corn off the pickup truck, that he had been picking 10 minutes before. Can’t wait to steam it for dinner!!!
July 26th, 2006 at 7:40 am
Mmmm… I would love to have all those things ripe at the same time. Our spinach only lasts until May or early June, and the tomatoes won’t be ready for another week or two.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:33 am
Never gets old does it. That feeling of walking out to your yard to get food you grew out of the dirt!